"Mr. Keel has made the argument of there not being ay signs of a struggle in the room ... think about where the area of the struggle was confined to. The area of the struggle was confined to the bed. You wouldn't expect chairs to be knocked over if the area of struggle was confined to the bed."

"Did the bed seem like a normal bed ... or did the bed seem pretty screwed up? It seemed pretty screwed.

"In addition we hear the argument that there were no screams heard. This wasn't a stand-up fistfight. If you want to kill someone silently, this is one of the best ways to kill someone.

"It makes common sense that there wouldn't be loud screams for a long period of time."

The partially nude body of Dickinson, 22, was found lying on the floor of her Hill Hall dorm room with a pillow over her head last December.

In his closing arguments, Keel told the jury that Dickinson was already dead when Taylor sneaked into her room. He argued that Taylor had masturbated in the room, resulting his semen being found on the dead woman's leg.

"He was in the room and masturbated on a deceased person," said Keel. "You may call it perverse, but it doesn't make it murder.